| Deposit ID | 10152413 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M014095 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 0410010095 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | North Pole-Columbia |
| Alternate or previous names | Golconda, Appomattox, Eureka, Excelsior, E and E, Taber, Williams, Wide West, More Or Less |
| Related records | 10032531 |
| Point of reference | Main Entrance |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -118.19435, 44.84205 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 2146 |
| Location accuracy | 1000(meters) |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Baker(county)
Oregon(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Bourne(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Powder(hydrologic unit)
Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)
Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)
Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Oregon | Baker |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willamette | 008 S | 037 E | 28 | C SWNW | Oregon |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Gold | Primary |
| Lead | Tertiary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Arsenopyrite | Unknown |
| Chalcopyrite | Unknown |
| Pyrite | Unknown |
| Stibnite | Unknown |
| Tetrahedrite | Unknown |
| Main Entrance (1) | -118.19435, 44.84205 |
|---|
| Strike | N30E | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dip | 82S | ||||||||||||||||||
| Thickness | 366M | ||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 8047M | ||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 48.7M | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1887 |
| Year of first production | 1895 |
| District name | Cracker Creek District |
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| Type of mineral rights | Patented |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Omega Mines Ltd. |
| Home office | 308-540 Burrad St. Vancouver, B. C. |
| Year | 1974 |
| Year | 1922 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1895-1922 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | 240831 Ounces Gold, 288378 Ounces Silver, 134 Pounds Lead, 36 Pounds Zinc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0410010095 | |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M014095 | MAS references MRDS |
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 380, 1908, PART 1.
OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-A, 1939, P. 38-
41.
U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 3569, 1941, P. 30-35.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | VARIOUS CLAIMS ALONG LODE, A DISTANCE OF APPROX 13,000 FEET. ALSO LOCATED IN SEC 29. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 08-JUN-92 | Ridenour, James | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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